Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The difference between Senator Abetz and me is that I stayed quiet while he was speaking but he is not prepared to do the same, because he is very embarrassed by this. He knows he is a loser when it comes to this debate and he knows he did the wrong thing. What I say to Senator Abetz is: you go out and ask the public to raise money on your behalf and give to you through your good offices the $436,000 that you owe the people of Australia for your mistaken and politically partisan and antiforest decision to take that course of action.